Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the deft, directorial hand of Howard Hawks, Bringing Up Baby comes off second only to last year's whimsical high spot, The Awful Truth, but its gaily inconsequent situations cannot match the fuselike fatality of that extraordinary picture. Bringing Up Baby's slapstick is irrational, rough-&-tumble, undignified, obviously devised with the idea that the cinemaudience will enjoy (as it does) seeing stagy Actress Hepburn get a proper mussing...
Born in Manhattan, Artist Evergood had his schooling at Cambridge University and London's famous Slade School. He is a hulking man of 36 with wide, intolerant brown eyes, childish brown hair and a hint of mustache. A strong draftsman with a rough sense of pictorial humor, Artist Evergood has been getting stronger and rougher right along. Last year his Art on the Beach caused fist fights in Australia where it was shown in an Evergood exhibition. Later it was purchased by Melbourne's National Gallery...
...gigantic tussle with Yale this Saturday Varsity wrestlers are making a desperate effort to counterbalance the setbacks of a very mediocre season. Ardent fans of the rough-and-tumble sport of grappling are beginning to ask, "How is it that a squad with some excellent material at the start has lost every major event this year...
...young men, none more than three years out of college, were frantically putting together the first issue of the first newsmagazine. A few days earlier someone had remembered that a magazine must have a cover, and an artist had been commissioned to design one. He submitted only a rough sketch. On both sides of a portrait there was to be an elaborate arrangement of sundials, hourglasses, other time-symbols. To suggest the general idea, the artist had sketched in some "spinach." Uncertain about the symbols, the editors decided to use the spinach as a stopgap. Except for minor alterations...
...Homes & Davis knew that, and Raymond Marien had a good head for figures. He got the job. He worked hard, and in 1933 he was put in charge of the accounting of Interstate Hosiery. Because of the activities of Mr. Marien, Interstate Hosiery statistics are highly dubious, but a rough guess by officers at its current net assets last week was $925,000. Every month Mr. Marien went to the company mills at Lansdale, Pa. and looked over the books. Every month he went back to Manhattan with a report in which the figures for cash on hand, accounts receivable...